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Eichmann In Jerusalem - A Report On The Banality Of Evil

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The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece

Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, this classic portrayal of the banality of evil is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling issues of the twentieth century.

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Ordinary Men - Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution In Poland

de Christopher R Browning

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Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time.

It takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis' extermination groups and explores in detail its composition, its actions, and the methods by which it was trained to perform acts of genocide on an industrial scale.

He introduces us to cheerful, friendly, ordinary men who killed without hesitation or apparent remorse for years on end, in docile obedience to an authority they happily accepted as legitimate.

It is a valuable corrective to the idea of German uniqueness and offers a much more chilling picture of human beings as avidly suggestible and desperate for an organising purpose in their lives, however disgusting.

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The Trouble With Being Born

de E. M. Cioran

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'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'

In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning.

In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world.

Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind. show less

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Conquerors - How Portugal Forged The First Global Empire

de Roger Crowley

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Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, Crowley brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

de Edward Gibbon

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Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a selection and bridging commentary that enables the reader to acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the author's work.

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Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler And Stalin

de Timothy Snyder

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In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.

In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast - an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, as a result of deliberate policies unrelated to combat.

In this book Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler and, using scholarly literature and primary sources, pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. The result is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine one of the greatest tragedies in European history and re-think our past..

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Travellers In The Third Reich - The Rise Of Fascism Through The Eyes Of Everyday People

de Julia Boyd

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The acclaimed history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts

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The Tiger From Pozna?

de Richard Siegert

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First-hand account written by the gunner of the only Tiger tank left in the Festung.

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Paris After The Liberation - 1944 - 1949

de Antony Beevor e Artemis Cooper

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An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.

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In Europe - Travels Through The Twentieth Century

de Geert Mak

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Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica.

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Gloriana's Rule - Literature, Religion and Power in the Age of Elizabeth

de Fátima Vieira e Rui Carvalho Homem

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Gloriana's Rule derives its title and contents from a specific event, an international conference organised by the Institute of English Studies (Universidade do Porto) in June 2003 to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of Elizabeth I. But this inception does not entail that the volume's rational and goals can be described as celebratory. Rather than embodying a panegyric, the present collection aims to contribute the ongoing interrogation of the myth of Gloriana, considered in its central representations as much as in some of the more peripheral forms ( in politics, language, and social practices) that have helped define the enduring cultural perception of an "Elizabethan golden age".

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Europe In The High Middle Ages - The Penguin History Of Europe

de William Chester Jordan

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Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.

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The Normans In Italy 1016â€“1194

de Andrea Salimbeti e Raffaele (Author) Dâ€™Amato; Ilustração: Florent Vincent

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Blood And Ruins - The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

de Richard Overy

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A Cartografia de Magalhães | The Cartography of Magellan

de Joaquim Alves Gaspar e Šima Krtalić

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De míticas ilhas situadas em parte incerta das Índias até ao destino de muitos navegadores, militares, comerciantes, padres e meros aventureiros, algumas décadas depois, as Molucas rapidamente se tornaram conhecidas na Europa devido às suas fabulosas riquezas. Tão fabulosas, de facto, que a proposta de Fernão de Magalhães de atravessar metade do Mundo para as alcançar e monopolizar os seus recursos acabou por seduzir a Coroa Espanhola.

Muitas narrativas textuais da circum-navegação sobreviveram, mas não menos importante é o testemunho registado na cartografia preparada antes e depois da missão. A viagem que esta obra propõe transporta o leitor para diferentes épocas e distantes partes do mundo.

Embora escrito para um público não especializado, o livro propõe novas interpretações e revela os resultados de recentes exames realizados a manuscritos originais. Explorando a fronteira entre ciência e arte, A Cartografia de Magalhães conta a história da primeira volta ao mundo através de um privilegiado testemunho gráfico: a cartografia náutica.

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O Exército, São João de Deus e a Rainha Santa Isabel: História e Cultura Militar - The Army, St John of God and St Elisabeht of Portugal: Military History and Culture

de Augusto Moutinho Borges e Luís Chaves

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Esta edição, bilingue e profusamente ilustrada, foca dois ilustres personagens da nossa história, citando o Autor «. ..encontramos em Portugal dois santos que, pelas suas acões concretas na área da assistência e administação, foram designados, respectivamente, Padroeiros da Direcção do Serviço Militar - São João de Deus - e da Administração Militar - Rainha Santa Isabel de Portugal.» conheça ao longo destas páginas, o tanto que há a saber sobre estes vultos marcantes que ainda hoje são recordados tanto no património arquitectonico como artístico e assistêncial, como exemplos admiráveis.

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Spqr - A History Of Ancient Rome

de Professor Mary Beard

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Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire.

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Beyond The Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990

de Katja Hoyer

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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2023

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics.

In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.

Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall

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How To Be A Victorian

de Ruth Goodman

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We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? This book helps you teach what you need to know about 19th century living.

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The Guns Of August - The Classic Bestselling Account Of The Outbreak Of The First World War

de Barbara Tuchman

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From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, this book shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum.

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The Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went To War In 1914

de Christopher Clark

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The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought...

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Rubicon - The Triumph And Tragedy Of The Roman Republic

de Tom Holland

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' The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon ...This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty.' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, GUARDIAN

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The Malleus Maleficarum

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This accessible English translation of the notorious and highly influential treatise of 1487 offers a glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter. -- .

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Dynasty - The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Caesar

de Tom Holland

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A masterful history of Rome's first imperial dynasty by the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and In the Shadow of the Sword.

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